You're reading from Swift 4 Programming Cookbook 50 task-oriented recipes to maximise Swift 4 productivity

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786460899

Length 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

iOS Development

Author (1):

Keith Moon

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Swift Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER

2. Building on the Building Blocks

3. Data Wrangling with Swift Control Flow

4. Generics, Operators, and Nested Types

5. Beyond the Standard Library

6. Swift Playgrounds

7. Server-Side Swift

8. Performance and Responsiveness in Swift

Swift on Ubuntu

The Linux operating system is a dominant force in the world of backend servers, so to be of any use for server-side development, Swift needs to be available on Linux. Fortunately, part of the open source release of Swift includes the Swift toolchain on Linux. Let's get it up and running with a "Hello World" program in Swift on Linux.

Getting started

This recipe will use Ubuntu 16.04, as this is a very popular and widely used Linux distribution, and 16.04 is the latest Long-Term Support (LTS) version. Additionally, pre-built binaries of the Swift toolchain are provided for this distribution by the Swift open source team. As a Mac user, I have tested this process on an instance of Ubuntu, running...